Case Study: Dillon Gage achieves 40% IT cost savings and higher reliability with Microsoft Azure

Precious Metals Dealer Ups IT Reliability, Trims Costs by 40 Percent by Moving to Cloud

Dillon Gage, a precious metals dealer, faced an aging and unreliable IT infrastructure that required a costly upgrade. Frequent power outages at their datacenter were causing significant downtime for their critical business applications, including their Infor/Lawson ERP system. To support global growth and improve stability without the high capital expense of new data centers, they sought a cloud solution and partnered with Microsoft.

Microsoft, with assistance from partner RBA, migrated Dillon Gage's applications to Microsoft Azure, utilizing both IaaS for their ERP and PaaS for their customer-facing FizTrade platform. They also adopted Microsoft Office 365. This move provided a highly available infrastructure, allowing the company to avoid a $1 million capital outlay and reduce ongoing IT costs by 40 percent. The solution also improved global agility and freed the IT staff to focus on innovation rather than infrastructure management.

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Tom Grounds

Chief Information Officer